The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1887-02-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
is DoNN pIATT "ARTHUR RICH
MOND?"
The Conviction OF Roodicrs a War nook
by Donn riaii Bitter Estimates of Grani
aud sherman Cocaine for Neuralgia Gu
rious Paper Hnrrcis strikes and Safes.
| ISncclnl Corrcsrnnhrncr.l


NEW loER, February 3, 1851
"lIoncsi John" O'Ncil follows the ways in
which the other r"boudlcn aldermen have gouc, Us
suggested he would in my last letter. Singi-
larly enough there was very strong public
feeling that this mau would escape, aud solely
because ot the attack made hy his counsel ON
Assistant District Attorney rurly III managing
the Katie Metz episode In the McQuadc trial.
There was no evidence for the defense whatever; .
amd reliance seemed To he placed wholly upon |
the attack ON the District Attorney. There was .
hardly an attempt even to establish good char /
nCtcr for "lloncst John" His conviction adds /
another to the many satircs on the prefix uf
"IIonest," which has been often misapplicd
To public men. Mr.. Marines success In these
three trials Of the hoollcrs giycs him great
prominence In many ways. Public confidence
in him is firmly established, and men begin to
talk of him as fitted FOR higher political duties.
lie was elected under such peculiar political
conditions that many held lin somewhat IN
distrisi, evidently fearing that he would he in
fucnced hy his personal and political relations
To tile very class he Is attacking most vigorously,
and hN the fact that the accused aud the prose-
Cutur belong 10 the same faction of the DcmOc-
racy. That dstrust is wholly gone, ani Mr.
MARITIME is so very high in public opinion that,
II he maintains his course with care and hon
esiy as now, there Is little IN the State tn which
he may moi hopefully aspire. Awholcsomc fear
of Mr. MARITIME has come upon the other indicted
boodlcmcn since U Neii's conviction, for II was
notorious that o'Ncil's was abou, the weakest
of all the cases which the District Attorney is
10 try and shall not he surprised To find some
of the indicted appealing to Him To he allowed
to plead guilty. II is about the only loopholc
10y which they can escape the full penalty of
their crime.
The North .is,crjcdp Rcricir lately published
a defense of President Cleveland In reply Ia
previous publication of yitupcrativc character,
and both articles have been lately commented
on The attack was published over the name
of Arthur Richmond and the defense was made
by Dom Piatt, the Sl0a-ycar postmaster Of
Mac ocheck, Ohio. The first name was cvi-
IDENTITY aom de- pl,pnc. The article itself bore
many evidences of being one of Dom Piatfs
bita of choice vitupcration, and there are many
here who believe that Patt is both the assailani
and the defender of the Administration. | have
no sort Of doubt in my own mind that Piait
wrote the attack ON Secretary lIayard which
[ Minister Phelps resented by refusing to present
/ the editor Of the RcricT at the English Court.
/ Possibly there he other Rohmonds than Dom
/ Piait in the field, hut | fancy the Administra
tion will find that Pat is the particularly active
partisan postmaster who ia thr,lsiing thorns in
its side. Soon after Piatt was appointed 10 his
/ $40 posmastcrship he began writing long let
/ tiers to the Postmaster General, instructing him
| how to run his Department MIR. Villas Is not
| particularly patient man, and after the receipt
| of the second message of twenty pages OF man
uscript he wrote in moment oi alarm To fintt
| ordering him to desist. But Piat defended his
course by nrguing-again at great lcngth-tlat
being an official the postal service was entitled
To all his time, and as his Office demanded very
little of it he felt il his duty to put in the hal
ance by submitting instructions
have been much interested in examining the
advance sheets of new book on the war hy
Mr. Piutt. II is now in the press of Mcssrs.
Beltord Clarke II Co., publishers, of this city
1t II called Memories of the Men who Saved
the union,n and these Patt maintains "crc
Lincoln, Stanton, Chase seward and George
Henry Thomas, to the exclusion of both Grant
and sherman. ] was the more Interested III II
because of the fervor with which Mr.. Patt
praises that greatest tactiCian ami sturdest
fighter of the war-Gcn Thomas. Piatt not
only claims the first place in the war for Gen.
Thomas but he bitterly attacks Grant and
Sherman, and these attacks will give additional
about Sherman. which all who know the over
wecning vanity of the old soldier will appre-
ciutc rs very nearly true:
"Shcrman was an exception to the commonly
| received notion llliI no man IL II HItdl l'
his lackcy' but then we have 10 remember
that Sherman was his own lackcy. lie took
that form when he refused the hand ol The grch'
War Secretary al the grand review At Washing
ton, and Is now devoting the remainder of hi
2 ill-spent life in trying Ia convince the worl'
that Tccuniseh Sherman Is great general. ii'
e reminds one of what the younger Dumas said o
= his iather-that the lerc would swing on bchint
t his own carriage rather than have the world he
D lieve he was without a fooiman"
Grant piatt writes. - lie owes all that Ii,
/; died possessed of la the shadow of Lees sur
rendered sword, and this shadow cost the noble
4 hearted, patriotic North sixty thousand dca,
e | between the Rnpidan and Richmond, brin!
p about the same number of men that the Con
e fedcrate general had Ia resist that march ot ON
e hundred aud forty thousand. We paid learl
for our one hero, hut as hc had become Repuil
lcan President, his npoihcosis became n politi
cal necessity
DR.. Leonard Corning of this city, well KNOW
4, as a writer on nervous diseases, recently rca'
= before the State Medical Society in session a
4 Albany an extremely interesting paper ON ih
cure Of neuralgia by the use of cocaine. al
"a surprised that the secular papers have taken n
I, notice of this new departure in the Use of thi
i new drug. The method devised 10y DR.. Corn
l., ing for introducing the remedy into the ski
NJ about the affected nerves and retaining II thcr
A. y, is Of an ingenious character and is carrie
40 ont in the following manner: \ number q
w fine needles are projected into the skin b
.n means OF a delicate instrument provided wit
H.. | u spring. lliis procedure Is absolutely pan
:, less, owing to the ineness of the needles an
~ the exceedingly rapid action of the sprin.
, which, being released, inStahiiiIcolsly propr
NJ the former through the outer layer of the Skin
~, over the perforated portion of the skin spone
No saturated with solution Of cocaine Is place,
In This sponge is connected with the positive poi
~. of a ghlvanic battery, The electric current
i then closed, procedure which causes Il
ia cocaine Ia enter the part, so that In abo'
~ -, ten minutes the skn is saturated an
=, quite inscnsitivc. Over the me,licacl po
,,s tion of the skin a piece OF fine wire gauze
in now placed and secured in position by meal
al, of an elastic band, which, on being tightent
~, sufficiently, cXcrts u uniform pressure upC
81 the gauzc The effect of this procedure Is
,e cause closure of the caparics beneath Il
,a medca,ed skin; and rs a result, the blood bcil
M. | thus denied access Ia the part cannot washh O
lac remedy and distribute 1t throughout the gc
" eral circulation. II will thus he seen that I'll
action Of the remedy upon the nerves of u
skin may he indefinitely prolonged. Cocaii
Is not the only remedy which may he used
this way; choroform, ether and many 9th
M medicinal agents may bc employed, but in ord
"a, to render the procedure painless the sk
u must iirrt be rendered insens'ivc by the pr
~ 'i lilnnary use of cocaine as above describe
.u Nv, This absolute painlessnesH and freedom fro
~. danger Is in fact the chief advantage of II
."' effective mode of treating neuralgia and 9th
" painful affections. But the Use of this plan
ih treatment Is not restricted to nervous diseas,
Wv DIR. David Webster, the OCust of this city, h
49,, " w upon 'Ht III
~ other soft parts about the eye. The implcmc
~ which Dr. Webster employs for making I
~ punciurcs in the skin is very much finer al
more delicate than that designed by DIR, Con
s's ing for the medication Of painful nerve
-" Otherwise the mode al procedure is about I
en same as previously described, DR.. Webster
, 'nr speaking of this subeci, observed that I
n.' w.. great advantage Oi making the skin in~cnsiti
NV IN this manner IN operations upon the cycli
" consists in the fact that the process Is
" sOuicly painless and causes no swelling of I
nip1 Va part aud the rapid healing Of the wound a
W" nr comfort of the patient are thus proportional
fni promoted.
iu' ,.a The papers give bricl notices oi the roce
,nn nI here Of cargo Of flour in paper barrelf, u
wv wv about every member Of the Produce ENchar
iei i who l. interested IN flour has paid visit 10
NV brokers who have II on consignment The b
rel IL certainly curiosity In it, way II i
actly like the ordinary wooden barrel IN for
being bulgcd In the middle. II l. a great III
ed terry 10 these people rs 10 how a bnlgcd bar
me could bc got ont of the machine in which II
The made, the middle being - very much lar
out than the end But The feature which hcl
phc them most comment on was the absolutely 4
t.nt nf luuliuW